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2004-05-11 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Zenster 2004-05-11 1:54:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 News article: In a meeting with ethnic Chinese living in England, Wen heard a proposal from 76-year-old Shan Sheng that Chinaâs parliament should draft and adopt a reunification law, the China News Service said. "Your view on reunification of the motherland is very important, very important. We will seriously consider it," Wen was quoted as saying.

I think this is a bit of pandering on Wen's side. I can't see the Chinese tying their hands in this manner. It's a lot like tossing the steering wheel out the window in a game of chicken. Still, if he's serious, it may be a good idea to accelerate the development and deployment of the missile defense system.

China's conventional military is a paper tiger, but until that missile defense system is in place, it's white knuckle time if war breaks out. Based on what has been said by the official mouthpieces at Chinese thinktanks, the Chinese appear to believe that a limited nuclear exchange is possible. A successful Chinese nuclear attack against the US over Taiwan would put to the test the US doctrine that it reserves the right to annihilate the enemy in exchange for a single nuclear attack on any US target, military or civilian.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-05-11 9:56:31 AM|| 2004-05-11 9:56:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 China should declare Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Tiawan to be Semi-Autonomous areas, each with varying degrees of autonomy (Xinjiang for example has 0% autonomy while Tiawan has 100% autonomy). Still they'd all be part of Greater China by that definition.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-05-11 12:23:15 PM|| 2004-05-11 12:23:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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